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"When I Get Wound Up Writing I'm a Bad Article to Squelch": The Written Words of Jo Mora
"When I Get Wound Up Writing I'm a Bad Article to Squelch": The Written Words of Jo Mora
"When I Get Wound Up Writing I'm a Bad Article to Squelch": The Written Words of Jo Mora

"When I Get Wound Up Writing I'm a Bad Article to Squelch": The Written Words of Jo Mora

HILLER, Peter.

"When I Get Wound Up Writing I'm a Bad Article to Squelch": The Written Words of Jo Mora.

FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies. Monterey, California: Monterey History and Art Association; The Jo Mora Trust; Carpe Diem Fine Books, 2008.

Quarto. 44 pp. Staplebound pictorial wrappers. Issued in a limited printing of 400 copies, the booklet is a useful primary-source companion for any Jo Mora collection — a compact volume of the artist in his own voice. Fine, as new. 

A gathering of Jo Mora's own written words — letters, journal entries, and unpublished manuscript material — selected and introduced by Peter Hiller, Curator of the Jo Mora Trust Collection. Mora (1876–1947), the Uruguayan-born artist, sculptor, cartographer, and author. The cover photograph shows Mora at his typewriter aboard the cruise ship Silverwillow.

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